Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections

Post by seanhunter » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 1:49 PM UTC

immortan wrote: post #48

I was one the developers responsible for implementing the netcode on Serious Sam. We often slept under the desks in the offices at croteam after lurking usenet. One post in particular described the QuakeWorld prediction system which inspired us. That night we coded a simplistic mvp as a colleague (hi dan) tested it over an old 486 nix machine acting as a router that we could simulate lag with. This was well before th…

Post by AdmiralAsshat » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 1:55 PM UTC

trwhite wrote: post #122

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #118

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HN is wonderful for that. I once commented on an article about Brave Browser that it was an ad extortion racket, and Brendan Eich showed up to call me an asshole. Good times!

Link?

Post by vanjajaja1 » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:04 PM UTC

immortan wrote: post #48

I was one the developers responsible for implementing the netcode on Serious Sam. We often slept under the desks in the offices at croteam after lurking usenet. One post in particular described the QuakeWorld prediction system which inspired us. That night we coded a simplistic mvp as a colleague (hi dan) tested it over an old 486 nix machine acting as a router that we could simulate lag with. This was well before th…

Post by hk1337 » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:06 PM UTC

raggi wrote: post #20

raggi wrote: post #19

Serious Sam was always a killer LAN party game. Not necessarily because it was the sexiest title of the day, or what anyone had planned. Serious Sam won the LAN party because even when every other game died under some driver issue, thermal issue, update problem, whatever, you’d load Serious Sam and it would just work. This continued through the later series too, hell of someone’s machine was completely dead in the wa…

Also, the many speaker sound of “aaaaaaaaaaaaah” was delightful

Post by nightowl_games » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:16 PM UTC

meheleventyone wrote: post #84

eru wrote: post #34

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Also it's easier to cheat when your local client has all the data.

Not so much easier but enables a different class of cheats in games where players don't have perfect information, even with other schemes there is normally enough information leaked that similar cheats are possible. OTOH using a deterministic simulation prevents a whole class of other cheats.